Ancient traditions of the spring meeting. What is a rollup?
Every nation has traditions that came fromdense antiquity, but preserved almost in its original form. So, the Slavs have been jumping through the summer bonfires for thousands of years, they meet the spring sun with ruddy pancakes, and on a dark winter night they get into animal skins, sing songs, ring bells, calling happiness and prosperity in every house. One of such ancient traditions is spring rolls.
Pagan origins
Kievan Rus, the cradle of the entire Slaviccivilization, stretched for many kilometers. Many people inhabited it and tribes. Therefore, it is not surprising that in different parts of Russia rituals and terms of holidays differed slightly. But most historians are convinced that the rite of the rolls was part of the Shrovetide cycle and coincided in time with the arrival of the first birds. It is possible that in some regions people did not even know what the zaklichka was, because the invocation of spring and heat from ancient times coincided completely with the rite of the celebration of Maslenitsa. The main actors, as a rule, were young girls - they had an important role - to call, to call the spring. For this it was necessary to choose a place higher: the roof of the house, the tree, the hill. By the way, the word "click", although it is used very rarely now, gives us an idea of what a "roll call" is. These words have a common root.
Girls and guys helped. They whistled in whistles, played on pipes and horns. And they certainly bred a big fire - to warm up and warm the spring.
The meeting of spring in the period of the Christian faith in Russia
With the coming of Christianity, the spring rolls, likemost of the other pagan holidays, did not sink into oblivion. They acquired a Christian background and successfully took root in the ritual of the new faith. The priests at first looked through their fingers at the kind and bright holiday, so beloved by the youth, and soon decided to combine it with the Orthodox calendar. The single date was still not there. Somewhere in the spring they clicked on the Annunciation, and somewhere on the Forty Saints. In general, the rite did not undergo any changes. Is that a little prikorektirovalis themselves zaklichki, the texts of which used to be an appeal to Moroz, Dazhdbog, Lada, Yaril. With the advent of Christianity, the girls crying for spring began to ask for grace from the Mother of God and Christ. Sometimes other saints were commemorated: martyrs, saints, blessed.
Заклички: texts, characters, attributes and props
What did the girls sing from a height? What were the calls for spring? The texts of the rolls often were simply composed on the go. But there were favorite songs and chants. The main essence of the text is the glorification of nature and personalized natural forces, the invitation to visit the warmth, gratitude to the cold and the expression of hope for their timely departure home. Often, the characters of song-rolls were migratory birds, because they are rightly considered to be harbingers of spring. The girls sang:
Come to us, spring-red, with joy!
With mercy!
With rye grainy,
With wheat golden,
With oat rich,
With barley baleen,
With juicy viburnum,
With sweet raspberries,
With every garden gardener,
With a grass-mash!
In addition to the songs themselves, an important attributeThe holiday was baked. From the sweet dough of the hostess, special nodules were folded, pulling one of the tips in the shape of a beak, or simply cutting out the birds. These cookies-birds were baked in the oven and handed out to children, they hid the roof under the roof, treated the sick, ate themselves. The bun went to domestic animals - so as not to get sick.
To quarrel and swear on that day was considereda terrible sin. After all, in fact, what is a roll call? This is the hope of ordinary people for rapid warmth, abundant harvest, prosperity. It is a celebration of the awakened nature.
An ancient tradition today
What is the spring roll call these days? This is no longer a cosmic sacred holiday, but rather, a folk festivities, an occasion to recall history, to rejoice in the approach of spring. Do not forget about this wonderful tradition! Especially happy for her children - they will gladly learn funny song-zakachki and polokomyatsya buns in the form of birds.
